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Report Summary

  • 45

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    64% of other websites

  • 97

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 92% of websites

  • 58

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    20% of websites

  • 96

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    90% of websites

mus.edu

Montana Public Colleges, Universities and Community Colleges | Montana University System

Page Load Speed

1.3 sec in total

First Response

149 ms

Resources Loaded

973 ms

Page Rendered

144 ms

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About Website

Visit mus.edu now to see the best up-to-date Mus content for United States and also check out these interesting facts you probably never knew about mus.edu

Information about the Montana University System and the Board of Regents.

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Key Findings

We analyzed Mus.edu page load time and found that the first response time was 149 ms and then it took 1.1 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 25% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

mus.edu performance score

45

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value4.3 s

18/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value7.9 s

3/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value4.6 s

70/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value460 ms

62/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.101

89/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value9.1 s

33/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

mus.edu

149 ms

mus.edu

191 ms

styles.css

213 ms

slick.css

113 ms

slick-theme.css

114 ms

Our browser made a total of 29 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 55% of them (16 requests) were addressed to the original Mus.edu, 14% (4 requests) were made to Fonts.gstatic.com and 10% (3 requests) were made to Googletagmanager.com. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (368 ms) belongs to the original domain Mus.edu.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 325.8 kB (47%)

Content Size

694.9 kB

After Optimization

369.1 kB

  • HTML
  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

In fact, the total size of Mus.edu main page is 694.9 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 40% of websites need less resources to load. Images take 245.9 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-79%

Potential reduce by 19.2 kB

  • Original 24.5 kB
  • After minification 18.7 kB
  • After compression 5.2 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 5.7 kB, which is 23% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 19.2 kB or 79% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-2%

Potential reduce by 5.4 kB

  • Original 245.9 kB
  • After minification 240.5 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Mus images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-59%

Potential reduce by 125.2 kB

  • Original 211.4 kB
  • After minification 185.3 kB
  • After compression 86.3 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. It is highly recommended that all JavaScript files should be compressed and minified as it can save up to 125.2 kB or 59% of the original size.

CSS Optimization

-83%

Potential reduce by 176.0 kB

  • Original 213.1 kB
  • After minification 211.4 kB
  • After compression 37.1 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered. Mus.edu needs all CSS files to be minified and compressed as it can save up to 176.0 kB or 83% of the original size.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 12 (55%)

Requests Now

22

After Optimization

10

  • Images
  • JavaScript
  • CSS

The browser has sent 22 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Mus. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 8 to 1 for JavaScripts and from 6 to 1 for CSS and as a result speed up the page load time.

Network Requests Diagram

mus.edu

mus.edu

149 ms

mus.edu

mus.edu

191 ms

styles.css

styles.css

213 ms

slick.css

slick.css

113 ms

slick-theme.css

slick-theme.css

114 ms

slickslider.css

slickslider.css

113 ms

jquery.min.js

jquery.min.js

33 ms

script.js

script.js

57 ms

js

js

74 ms

js

js

121 ms

script.js

script.js

335 ms

slick.js

slick.js

217 ms

css

css

39 ms

font-awesome.css

font-awesome.css

37 ms

gtm.js

gtm.js

117 ms

ga.js

ga.js

117 ms

mus-oche-header-background.jpg

mus-oche-header-background.jpg

325 ms

mus-logo.png

mus-logo.png

170 ms

ApplyMontana-Banner.jpg

ApplyMontana-Banner.jpg

368 ms

OCHE-Logo.jpg

OCHE-Logo.jpg

170 ms

achieve-mt-logo_sm.png

achieve-mt-logo_sm.png

190 ms

ApplyMT-MUS.png

ApplyMT-MUS.png

169 ms

AM-Logo-final.png

AM-Logo-final.png

169 ms

mus-logo.png

mus-logo.png

195 ms

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88 ms

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fontawesome-webfont.woff

58 ms

Accessibility Review

mus.edu accessibility score

97

Accessibility Issues

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

mus.edu best practices score

58

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

High

Includes front-end JavaScript libraries with known security vulnerabilities

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

User Experience

Impact

Issue

High

Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio

High

Serves images with low resolution

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Browser errors were logged to the console

High

Page has valid source maps

SEO Factors

mus.edu SEO score

96

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Mus.edu can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Mus.edu main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

mus.edu

Open Graph description is not detected on the main page of Mus. Lack of Open Graph description can be counter-productive for their social media presence, as such a description allows converting a website homepage (or other pages) into good-looking, rich and well-structured posts, when it is being shared on Facebook and other social media. For example, adding the following code snippet into HTML <head> tag will help to represent this web page correctly in social networks: